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Greymouth Star
New Zealand
Tuesday, May 5, 2015 - 3
Cell death inquiry
A man died in custody at an
Auckland court yesterday, after being
found unconscious and alone in his
cell. Police said the man, 36, was alone
in his cell at the Papakura District
Court when he was found about
3.45pm. CPR was performed, but he
was later pronounced dead. Counties
Manukau police district commander
Superintendent John Tims said
there would a “robust and thorough
investigation”. The man was in custody
on charges of kidnapping, injuring
with intent to injure and male assaults
female. He was arrested for breaching
bail conditions. — NZ ME
Dead kayaker named
The Auckland kayaker who died
in rough surf at Muriwai Beach on
Sunday has been identified as Dein
Mitchell, 51, of Glenfield. His death
has been referred to the coroner.
— NZ ME -New Zealand Herald
Alleged assailant named
A man who allegedly attacked an
elderly couple and stole their car can
be named after his suppression lapsed.
Stanley Aholotu, 29, bricklayer, from
Randwick Park, appeared in the
Auckland District Court yesterday
on six charges, most stemming
from an incident in Onehunga on
April 4. Aholotu faces two counts
of injuring with intent to injure,
two of intentional damage, and one
of unlawfully taking a vehicle and
receiving a stolen vehicle. He will next
appear in court in July. — NZ ME
Elderly man rescued
An elderly man was plucked to
safety in a rescue basket last night
in west Auckland, after he fell down
a bank near a river and became
stuck. The 75-year-old was reported
missing about 7.15pm and was
located soon after by police near
Colwill Road in Massey. Fire Ser vice
spokesman Colin Underdown said
the man was carried out using a
Stokes basket.
— NZ ME -New Zealand Herald
Storm makes US waves
A New Zealand storm has been
blamed for monster waves sweeping
California. A high-surf warning was
in place in California with more big
waves expected today. Individual
waves could be more than twice
the “significant wave height,” the
National Weather Ser vice warned. A
big storm near New Zealand late last
week and early last weekend was to
blame. “Once those waves are created,
they keep travelling until they reach
land,” David Sweet, a weather ser vice
meteorologist told the Los Angeles
Times. “So we can thank our friends
Down Under.” — NZME
Keno results
Numbers in Keno draw No 11140: 1,
2, 19, 24, 26, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36,
39, 55, 62, 64, 67, 71, 75, 76. Draw No
11141: 2, 8, 13, 16, 20, 21, 27, 30, 47,
50, 52, 53, 59, 60, 64, 65, 67, 68, 72, 73.
Draw No 11142: 1, 5, 7, 14, 15, 17, 24,
40, 41, 42, 45, 48, 49, 50, 51, 61, 65, 71,
73, 78. Draw No 11143: 1, 2, 8, 10, 15,
17, 18, 23, 26, 36, 39, 50, 55, 59, 62, 67,
68, 71, 73, 74.
Labour vows action over zero-hours contracts in Parliament
Wellington
Human remains found on Farewell
Spit have been confirmed as those of a
missing 26-year-old tourist.
Police said today the remains were
those of D utch tourist Ken Boogers.
Mr Boogers was last seen alive on
March 21 on Pillar Point track near
Wharariki in Golden Bay.
A search and rescue operation failed to
find any trace of Mr Boogers in the area.
On Monday, April 20 a member of the
public found human remains on Farewell
Spit.
More remains were found eight days
later.
Police said Mr Boogers’ family were
advised and arrangements were being
made to repatriate the body to the
Netherlands. — NZ ME
Remains identified
Auckland
A private prosecutor says he will not
back down in his bid to prosecute the
Prime Minister over the ponytail-pulling
debacle.
Graham McCready has told waitress
Amanda Bailey and the Unite union
his private prosecution “will not be
withdrawn in any circumstances. ”
Mr McCready, in an e-mail for warded
to media overnight, warned Ms Bailey
and Unite against advising or preventing
any other witnesses from getting involved
in his private prosecution.
He said he expected a District Court
judge to decide who will have to
give evidence under oath as to their
knowledge of the “Key ponytail affair”.
After 26-year-old Ms Bailey posted an
anonymous blog post about the ponytail-
pulling incidents that spanned several
months, Mr Key made a public apology
and said he was just “horsing around”.
On Wednesday Mr McCready filed
paper work at the Auckland District
Court. He proposed to charge the Prime
Minister with “male assaults female”
which carried a maximum penalty of two
years in jail.
The serial litigant alleged Mr Key
abused his power when engaging in
ponytail-pulling with Ms Bailey, who
worked at Rosie cafe in Parnell.
Mr McCready said other people
could file their own private prosecution
or complain to the Human Rights
Commission if they wanted to take
action.
Blogger Martyn Bradbury said he
wanted Ms Bailey to make a choice she
was comfortable with.
He defended the decision to publish
her story, telling TV One’s Breakfast
the 26-year-old had been the victim
of “harassment ” at work at the Prime
Minister’s hands.
He said the New Zealand Herald, not
The Daily Blog, was to blame for Ms
Bailey’s identity being made public.
— NZME
McCready
refuses to
withdraw
ponytail case
Wellington
Labour says it will take action to
stop staff working in Parliament on
zero-hour contracts.
Speaker
David Carter
has
confirmed nine staff are employed
in the Parliamentary Precinct on
zero-hour contracts. Labour leader
Andrew Little said he understood the
contractor is the Australian cleaning
and catering company Spotless, and
the staff worked in catering.
“There are now 18,000 fast food
workers who are no longer subject to
zero-hour contracts following public
outrage. If these massive companies
can quickly adapt, then there is no
reason Parliament can’t.”
Mr Little said he had written to the
Speaker to express concern and would
raise the issue in a meeting tonight.
“Ithinkitisadisgrace...
(Parliamentary Ser vices)
run
the contract. They can say to the
contractor, ‘ We don’t want this style
of employment here’. That is the least
they should be doing.
“ You now have two pretty large
employers, Restaurant Brands and
Burger King, who have said we just
don’t need these things and we are not
going to have them.
“ We have (Workplace Relations
Minister Michael Woodhouse) saying
he’s now looking at laws that will
prohibit or outlaw them, Parliament
and Parliamentary Ser vices should be
setting the example.”
Mr Woodhouse has signalled his
intent to see some of the harshest of the
so-called zero-hour contracts outlawed.
Those included when people had to
be available for work but were given
no guaranteed hours of work, restraint
of trade clauses, and the cancellation
of shifts at short or no notice.
Prime Minister John Key said he
was not responsible for the contracts
under question in Parliament and
was therefore unsure if they would fit
within the areas of employment law
the Government wanted to change.
“ Where our real area of concern has
been . . . is where there are predatory
issues — where someone is actually
stopped from working somewhere
else because they are on a zero hour
contract, it ’s where there are changes
made to their hours very, very rapidly.
“ I suspect that is probably not the
case here in Parliament but I’m not
responsible so I don’t know.”
Asked if he would boycott
Parliamentary catering ser vices or the
cafe until the contracts were altered,
Mr Little said he would not.
Boycotts could be a “two-edged
sword” and put jobs in danger, he said.
“ We will take action, we will put
pressure where it needs to be put and
following this through. ”
— N Z ME-New Zealand Herald
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Dunedin
The Dunedin woman whose
close encounter with a pig left her
nursing bruises says she holds no
grudge against the stinky swine.
But the owner says his 150kg
kunekune, Boris, was simply
seeking affection.
The woman, who did not want
to be named, said several of the
stories circulating in the national
media yesterday about the attack
on her by a pig on Purakaunui
Road on Sunday were a bit curly
and she set the record straight
yesterday.
She had been sorting books for
the upcoming Regent Book Sale
in the Octagon and was driving
to her Purakaunui Road home.
About 300m from her driveway,
she stopped after seeing a large
pig chase traffic.
“ You can’t leave a big pig in the
middle of the road — it’s a bit
dangerous.”
She got out of her car to open
a nearby farm gate, but as she
struggled with the latch, the pig
nibbled on her trousers, so she
retreated to her car.
“As I sat in the front seat, the
piggotinthecarontopofme—
like a dog would — with his front
legs and chest on top of me.”
The pig began chewing on the
hood of her jersey, which was
draped around her neck.
A man drove past as the pig
climbed on her.
“The next person who drove
past, stopped and said, ‘Is this
your pig?’ which I thought was a
strange question. ”
She responded: “Does it look
like my pig?”
The man tried to remove the pig
from the car.
“He tried to pull it out by the
hair on its back and it wasn’t
moving so he got a hold of its ear
and twisted it and managed to
pull it out.”
The pig had left “hefty bruises”
on her shoulder and thigh.
“It’sabigbeast...itwasa
frightening experience.”
The “smelly, phlegmy, dribbly”
pig had left its stench and
scratches in her car. She and
the man coaxed the pig to its
paddock. She wished the pig no
harm.
“ I don’t want revenge on the
pig. ”
Cam Romeril said his 150kg pig
Boris would have been seeking
affection because the family was
out for the day.
He understood why Boris
— with 10cm tusks — would
have scared the woman but he
was motivated by a “thirst for
interaction”.
“ His personality will save him
from becoming salami. ”
The hole in the fence where the
five-year-old pig escaped had
been repaired.
Dunedin City Council animal
control officer Alister Wilden
said it was the first time Boris had
come to the council’s attention.
If the council had further
complaints about the pig, action
could follow, he said.
— Otago Daily Times
No hard feelings over pushy porker
PICTURE: Otago Daily Times
Boris the pig relaxes with his owner, Cam Romeril, in Dunedin yesterday after being pulled off a woman
in a car on Sunday.
Travel costs
soar after
DOC
revamp
Wellington
The Department of Con-
ser vation spent $1 million
more on travel alone as
a result of a restructure
designed to save money,
Radio New Zealand
reported today.
The department ’s re-
structuring
came
into
force in September 2013,
combining 12 regions into
six super regions with the
loss of about 70 jobs.
In August 2013, just
before the restructuring,
DOC’s travel costs were
$604,000. Last August that
increased by $60,000 to
$664,000.
For the first three months
of 2014, travel spending
ballooned — going up
by $100,000 in January,
$255,000 in February
and $255,000 in March,
compared with the same
months in 2013.
In the calendar year, travel
costs went from about $6m
to $7m.
DOC chief financial
officer Christeen MacKenzie said the
increase was due to managers having to
travel further to meet with staff.
“The reality of it is, is that when you
have new managers at places it’s actually
really important that those people get
the right context to their work and it was
expected that in the initial stages there
would be an increase in travel.”
Green Party conser vation
spokeswoman Eugenie
Sage said the increased
spending came as no
surprise.
“It highlights what a
disaster
Nick Smith’s
restructuring of DOC
has been. The major loss
of staff in the field means
managers and staff are
having to travel more,
so now we have the
department spending a
million dollars more on
travel. That could have
funded aerial 1080 control
for pests over 59,000ha
—
that would be the
equivalent of two Paparoa
National Parks.”
Forest and Bird advocacy
manager Kevin Hackwell
said it was not a small sum
in the scheme of things.
“A million dollars is a
lot of money for them. It
would get you front-line
staff which we desperately
need and which they have
been cutting back on etc.
“It would get you a lot of
conser vation and this is just one of the
costs of the restructure — we ’ve also lost
really talented, dedicated people. Some
70-80 jobs went last year as a result of
the restructure and people doing front-
line work.”
DOC said it had now started video
conferencing and the travel costs would
drop. — NZN
Eugenie Sage
Nick Smith
Auckland
Air New Zealand will join other
airlines and shut down Dreamliners
completely every three months after
tests exposed a problem that could
cause the plane to lose all electrical
power and a loss of control.
The United States Federal Aviation
Administration said laboratory
tests by Boeing had exposed a
computer glitch in a 787 that was run
continuously for 248 days and could
cause it to lose power as generator
units simultaneously went into
failsafe mode.
The administration said this could
happen at any phase of flight in
the plane that relies extensively on
electricity from its own generators
rather than using pneumatics to power
hydraulics and other equipment.
The FAA directive requires
operators of the plane to periodically
shut off power completely to planes
during maintenance while Boeing
develops software to fix the problem.
Air New Zealand has three of the
planes in its fleet and nine more on
order.
The airline said the FAA order
required it to undertake a “power
cycle” every three months.
“Air New Zealand fully complies
with all Airworthiness Directives
from relevant aviation authorities and
this requirement will be incorporated
into our ongoing maintenance plans,”
a spokeswoman said.
The FAA has direct control over
United States-registered planes but
in practice applies to operators of the
aircraft around he would.
The New Zealand Civil Aviation
Authority monitors Air New
Zealand.
“Air New Zealand is required
to incorporate this airworthiness
directive into its maintenance
schedule. The CAA will test this
during the Air New Zealand
maintenance control re-certification
process this week,” an authority
spokesman said.
The FAA says the deactivation takes
about an hour and costs about $110.
It said the risk to the flying public
justified waiving a feedback period
from operators.
Nearly 270 Dreamliners have been
delivered around the world. They first
entered ser vice in 2011 after years of
design and production delays. The
risk of battery fires in 2013 forced
the grounding of the fleet around the
world for two months.
— NZ ME-New Zealand Herald
Computer reboot to tackle Dreamliner glitch
An Air New Zealand Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
Wellington
Former Prime Minister Jim Bolger has
racked up more than $100,000 in travel
expenses on the taxpayer tab in the last
three years.
New York-based Helen Clark still
spends $20,000 a year on domestic
travel via the travel allowances which
ex-premiers are entitled to.
The information was revealed under
the Official Information Act to the
Dominion Post.
It showed Mr Bolger, who was last
prime minister in 1997, had claimed the
most out of any past leaders. He and his
spouse Joan spent $111,138 between
2011 and 2014.
Dame Jenny Shipley and her husband
Burton were the next biggest spenders,
claiming $70,687 in travel expenses over
that period.
Ms Clark and her husband Peter Davis
claimed $64,055 in the last three years.
The figures showed ex-prime ministers
were spending more on travel than many
current MPs.
Former prime ministers who were
in office for two years or more were
entitled to free, unrestricted domestic
flights and VIP transport for the rest of
their lives.
They also received annuity payments of
between $19,400 and $48,500.
The Remuneration Authority said
ex-premiers were given the allowance
because their past role inevitably created
travel obligations after they had left
office.
The annuity payments made up for
their “very modest salaries” while in
office.
A rule change last year ensured that
current Prime Minister John Key will
be the last leader to receive unrestricted
travel perks.
— NZ ME-New Zealand Herald
Bolger travel costs
top $100,000
Christchurch
Scott Watson will return to court this
month to fight a move by Corrections
to block a behind-bars meeting with an
investigative journalist.
Watson is seeking a judicial review
of a decision by the chief executive of
Corrections to refuse him a meeting with
North and South journalist Mike White.
The review will be heard in the High
Court at Christchurch on May 20.
It is understood that Watson, convicted
of murdering Ben Smart and Olivia
Hope in 1998, wanted to discuss his case
with Mr White.
In 2007, Mr White wrote a North
and South article that raised “mounting
doubts police got the right man”.
Ms Hope’s father Gerald, who has also
been blocked from visiting Watson in
prison, said in the article: “ What we got
was a conviction but we never got the
truth. Nothing ever was confirmed, it
was all circumstantial, there was no hard
evidence. I ’m not saying (Scott Watson)
is not guilty. What I’m saying is let ’s clear
up the doubt.”
Watson has maintained that he did not
kill Mr Smart and Ms Hope, who were
last seen boarding a yacht in Endeavour
Inlet, in the Marlborough Sounds, in the
early hours of January 1, 1998.
Watson was found guilty of their murder
and sentenced to life imprisonment with
a minimum non-parole period of 17
years. — NZ ME
Watson fights
ban on meeting
journalist
Rotorua
The elderly clients of a Rotorua
financial adviser considered her to
be a close friend when she stole
almost $1 million from them and
their family trusts.
Yesterday former financial adviser
Linnet Bernadine Lewis, 51,
pleaded guilty to 15 charges of theft
by a person in a special relationship.
Lewis admitted the crimes just as
her trial was about to start in the
High Court at Rotorua.
According to the summary of
facts, the offending took place
between 2004 and 2011.
Lewis worked for Guardian Trust
for seven years before her departure
in 2004 to set up her own companies,
Lewis Administration Ltd and Algin
Trust Ser vices Ltd, which prompted
several clients to move their trusts,
personal investments and expenditure
administration into her care.
The 51-year-old took over paying
clients’ utility accounts, rates,
tax returns, as well as managed
their property portfolios and
investments.
She also invested her clients’
trust funds in Craigs Investment
Partners Ltd and was authorised to
act on their behalf.
After one of Lewis’s clients died
in 2008 his widow became aware of
unauthorised withdrawals that had
been made in her husband’s name
and the family trust.
The widow instructed a private
investigator,
her
accountant
and a solicitor to help reconcile
discrepancies.
Lewis
acknowledged
errors
had been made and paid back
$37,807 by making unauthorised
withdrawals from other trusts and
c lients’ accounts.
Another couple who discovered
unauthorised withdrawals from a
family trust also asked their lawyer
to find out how much time Lewis
had spent working on their behalf.
“The only response they received
was an offer by the defendant to
refund $4000 in ‘full and final
settlement ’, ” says the summary.
Lewis is said to have forged
invoices and in some cases altered
invoices by using correction fluid or
increasing the amount owing.
Lewis is also said to have spent
about $830,000 of her clients’
money on herself and making
untraceable cash withdrawals of
about $30,000.
Of the money she spent, more
than $200,000 went to her personal
bank account, while $336,000 went
towards her mortgage repayments
and house renovations. She also spent
$5300 on food and entertainment
and another $11,250 on health and
beauty products or ser vices.
Lewis has been remanded on bail
for sentencing on June 19. Justice
Simon Moore suppressed the
identities of Lewis’ victims.
— NZ ME-Rotorua Daily Post
Adviser took $1m from elderly, dead
Christchurch
Two trucks collided at an inter-
section outside of Christchurch this
morning.
Police, fire and ambulance
ser vices were called to the crash
at the intersection of West Coast
Road (State highway 73) and
Chattertons Road, about 15km
west of Christchurch, shortly
before 10am.
Police are warning of delays,
with diversions still in place this
afternoon.
St John confirmed one man was
taken to Christchurch Hospital’s
emergency department
with
moderate injuries. — N Z ME
Trucks collide near Christchurch